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people who exclude straight trans people and straight aspec people are my worst enemies. btw

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mutuals know this is me whenever i like your vent posts

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Obsessed with the idea of sorcerer's eyes turning gold as means of scaring off predators, similar to how poisonous frogs are generally brightly colored to warn away birds, or how certain butterflies use startle coloration to temporarily shock their predators with a sudden color change. The golden eyes act, essentially, as a glaring warning to the opposition that a sorcerer's insides are far more threatening than they may appear on the outside. Or, at the very least, as a means of temporarily startling the enemy while the sorcerer makes a quick escape.

Also consider - frog/butterfly coded!Merlin. This man is pure amphibian/insect just look at him! Truly a creature.

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𝖩𝗈𝗋𝖽𝖺𝗇: 𝖶𝗁𝗒 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖿𝗈𝗅𝗅𝗈𝗐𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗆𝖾?

𝖬𝖺𝗋𝗂𝖾 : 𝖡𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗎𝗌𝖾 𝗐𝖾’𝗋𝖾 𝖽𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗇𝗈𝗐

𝖩𝗈𝗋𝖽𝖺𝗇: 𝖮𝗄𝖺𝗒… 𝖶𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝖺𝖻𝗈𝗎𝗍 𝖤𝗆𝗆𝖺?

𝖬𝖺𝗋𝗂𝖾: 𝖶𝖾’𝗋𝖾 𝖺 𝗉𝖺𝖼𝗄𝖺𝗀𝖾 𝖽𝖾𝖺𝗅.

𝖤𝗆𝗆𝖺: 𝖡𝗎𝗒 𝗈𝗇𝖾 𝗂𝖽𝗂𝗈𝗍, 𝗀𝖾𝗍 𝗈𝗇𝖾 𝖿𝗋𝖾𝖾.

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merthur shippers are always like "tee hee I could take you apart with one blow :) do you know how to walk on your knees?? gay!" meanwhile merlin is going around casually dropping lines like "his life is worth a thousand of mine" and "I know him better than I know myself" and "magic isn't just a part of me it IS me. and of course I use it only for arthur"

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Characters: are absolutely perfect in every way, always make the right choices, never mess up ever

Fandoms: ughhh not Mary Sues again 🙄 we want complex characters!

Characters: don’t do everything right all the time, have realistic trauma responses, mess up or do something that hurts their friends at least once

Fandoms: ughhhhh they’re so annoying 🙄 literally why are they like this

Characters:

Authors:

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Credit to moeai.art on Tik Tok

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x13 || 3x04

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Uther: you are not good enough for my son.

Merlin: you’re not good enough for your son.

Uther: excuse me?

Merlin: you heard me.

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Hey! Are there blacksmiths in your story? I'm a hobbyist blacksmith and I'm here to help!

Blacksmithing is one of those things that a lot of people get wrong because they don't realize it stuck around past the advent of the assembly line. Here's a list of some common misconceptions I see and what to do instead!

Not all blacksmiths are gigantic terrifying muscly guys with beards and deep voices. I am 5'8, skinny as a twig, have the muscle mass of wet bread, and exist on Tumblr. Anybody who is strong enough to pick up a hammer and understands fire safety can be a blacksmith.

You can make more than just swords with blacksmithing. Though swords are undeniably practical, they're not the only things that can be made. I've made candle holders, wall hooks, kebab skewers, fire pokers, and more. Look up things other people have made, it's really amazing what can be done.

"Red-hot" is actually not that hot by blacksmith terms. when heated up, the metal goes from black, to red, to orange, to yellow, to white. (for temperature reference, I got a second degree burn from picking up a piece of metal on black heat) The ideal color to work with the metal is yellow. White is not ideal at all, because the metal starts sparking and gets all weird and lumpy when it cools. (At no point in this process does the metal get even close to melting. It gets soft enough to work with, but I have never once seen metal become a liquid.)

Blacksmithing takes fucking forever. Not even taking into account starting the forge, selecting and preparing metal, etc. etc. it takes me around an hour to make one (1) fancy skewer. The metals blacksmiths work with heat up and cool down incredibly fast. When the forge is going good, it only takes like 20 seconds to get your metal hot enough to work with, but it takes about the same time for it to cool down, sometimes even less.

As long as you are careful, it is actually stupidly easy to not get hurt while blacksmithing. When I picked up this hobby I was like "okay, cool! I'm gonna make stuff, and I'm gonna end up in the hospital at some point!" Thus far, the latter has yet to occur. I've been doing this for nearly a year. I have earned myself a new scar from the aforementioned second degree burn, and one singe mark on my jeans. I don't even wear gloves half the time. Literally just eye protection, common sense, and fast reflexes and you'll probably be fine. (Accidents still happen of course, but I have found adequate safety weirdly easy to achieve with this hobby)

A forge is not a fire. The forge is the thing blacksmiths put their metal in to heat it up. It starts as a small fire, usually with newspaper or something else that's relatively small and burns easily, which we then put in the forge itself, which is sort of a fireplace-esque thing (there's a lot of different types of forge, look into it and try to figure out what sort of forge would make the most sense for the context you're writing about) and we cover it with coal, which then catches fire and heats up. The forge gets really hot, and sometimes really bright. Sometimes when I stare at the forge for too long it's like staring into the sun. The forge is also not a waterfall of lava, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Welding and blacksmithing are not the same thing. They often go hand-in-hand, but you cannot connected two pieces of metal with traditional blacksmithing alone. There is something called forge welding, where you heat your metal, sprinkle borax (or the in-universe equivalent) on it to prevent the metal from oxidizing/being non-weldable, and hammer the pieces together very quickly. Forge welding also sends sparks flying everywhere, and if you're working in a small space with other blacksmiths, you usually want to announce that you're welding before you do, so that everyone in a five-foot radius can get out of that five-foot radius. You also cannot just stuck some random pebbles into the forge and get a decent piece of metal that you can actually make something with, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Anvils are really fucking heavy. Nothing else to add here.

Making jewelry is not a blacksmithing thing unless you want jewelry made of steel. And it will be very ugly if you try. Blacksmithing wasn't invented to make small things.

If there's anything here I didn't mention, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.

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"I see what everybody else sees. I watch the same show."

This line literally brought me to tears. Like Fox saying no doesn't surprise me, they suck. And showrunners saying no to queer syorylines isn't new. But an actor siding with queer fans? I know he's not the only one, but damn have we come a long way. Remember at the height of Superwholock when actors would call us weird for our gay ships? We have come such a long way, nature is healing

#another reason to hate Fox

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extremely weird to think about the fact that the internet is a collection of physical objects, like, if i send a message to a person on another continent, there's a continuous physical path that each packet followed between each of our routers and it probably passes through an undersea cable which doesn't feel like something that should be real how did people manage that

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I think I’m going to think about this youtube comment forever

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do i ship these characters or do i want them to form a sketch comedy duo

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Do you guys ever imagine what the night after Arthur met Merlin was like for Arthur?

Like, I imagine him going through the normal motions of his night, but constantly thinking about this random guy that dared to insult the prince. And yeah, now that guys in the stocks because he should be… right?

But ever since that encounter Arthur can’t stop thinking about it and it’s not because he hated it. He feels different. It felt different being around him. Why? Why does he feel a small ember of excitement at the idea of seeing him again?

He’s frustrated by all of this. What happened shouldn’t be affecting him this much. It doesn’t matter. And yet it feels like he just met someone he didn’t know he was waiting for.

“There’s something about you, Merlin… I can’t quite put my finger on it”

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the fact that merlin kills arthur’s family members (uther aggravaine morgause morgana) because they keep dissapointing him is kind of insane to me